Maggie Appleton

• illustrated essays with cool stuff about metaphors to visualize abstract tech

Julian Shapiro

• illustrated essays about writing more, mental models, and other stuff
• beautiful web design, 10/10

Gavin Leech

• excellent essays on technical topics
• nice use of accordions for progressive UX

Tal Yarkoni

• excellent essays on the state of science and statistics

Nicky Case

• sort of cheating because Nicky is very famous
• incredible style of visuals
• high-impact lessons in well-written explorables

Gwern Branwen

• also cheating
• you gotta check this out if you haven't already
• so much content
  • sleep
  • drugs
  • ai
  • papers
  • genes
  • anime

Michael Nielsen

• I should probably stop cheating and pick some more lesser-known gems
• but seriously, this one's also a must-check-out
  • neural networks
  • quantum computing
  • the best HCI stuff

Ben Kuhn

• effective altruism things
• also some motivation things

Nate Soares

• also cheating because this is not a personal site, per se
• but very very very good stuff on motivation
• actually incredibly high leverage, definitely read the stuff about Shoulds

Lynn Fisher

• a single div is so beautiful
• very artsy

Alvin Wan

• very nice pictures
• good design